Work with Catherine Wardle!

A rich world-class education in languages and cultures

Hello! I am a first-class languages graduate from the University of Cambridge, providing translations from French, Spanish and Catalan into English.

I have a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages which involved:

• French, Spanish and Catalan language, translation, linguistics, history and literature.
• An extensive research project on French literary translation.
• An Erasmus placement at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in Spain where I studied history and French and Catalan language.

More recently I completed an MPhil (Master’s Degree) in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures where I studied:

• Paleography (manuscript studies).
• The history and theory of gender.
• A 30,000-word independent research project on travel in seventeenth-century French women’s writing.

Cambridge is a rigorous learning environment which means I am used to being under time pressure, working independently and carrying out thorough research before undertaking a task.

Experience in a professional translation setting

I have previously worked as a Translation Intern and Assistant Project Manager at the translation agency Raptrad Sud Ouest in Toulouse, France.

Here my main roles were translation, machine translation post-editing and proofreading from French into English, and I also learnt the importance of meticulously researching a text’s subject field before translating.

I carried out project management tasks and quality control checks on translated documents which meant having a very keen eye for detail!

Proficiency in various CAT tools

I currently own and am confident using:

• Trados Studio (CAT tool)
• Cafetran Espresso (CAT tool)
• Microsoft Office

I have also previously used X Bench, XTRF and Across (CAT tool) but do not currently have access to these as a freelancer!